Thursday 1st Emily Portman: beautiful, beguiling, slightly witchy contemporary folk music from Glastonburyโs Emily Portman, but then again her new album is called Dominion Of Spells; The North Wall; 7pm Friday 2nd The Balkan Wanderers + The Mighty Redox + The HorMONES + Gulag Walrus: Oxford institution Klub Kakofanney celebrates its 35th anniversary with a…
Tuesday 1st The Space Lady + Yu Ching ้ป้จๆด + Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani; A sure-to-be-miraculous show by legendary outsider, street musician and birdwatcher The Space Lady. A kind of Casio-wielding Moondog (helmet included), TSLโs songs transmit โmessages of peace and harmonyโ but with the faintly unsettling naivete of Joana Newsom or Mary Timony,…
Saturday 1st Santa Carla + Rudy and The Bagpipes; Oxford’s Laima Bite-fronted Santa Carla celebrate the release of their debut album of pleasingly melodic, convincingly straightforward rock-pop songs. Not as goth-y as her other band MarysGarden, but still Cure-ish. Support from the misleadingly named folk-punk singer Rudy and The Bagpipes. The Bullingdon; 7:15pm Sunday 2nd…
Wednesday 1st Gong; The once-Daevid Allen fronted Canterbury Scene rockers were formed in 1967, but tonight’s lineup’s longest serving member joined in 2009. Still I’m sure they will be good. The Bullingdon; 7pm | Capsuna w/ Spaceman and the Spaceband; Slackers from Brussells w/ Slackers from Oxford. Little Bully; 7pm Thursday 2nd Pyjama + The…